Re: Microsoft begining to open source Windows 2000?

From: Ralf Baechle (ralf@uni-koblenz.de)
Date: Fri Mar 09 2001 - 12:01:42 EST


On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 08:26:36AM -0500, Mohammad A. Haque wrote:

> Hmm. I guess you have something there. I come from a Mac background and
> some patches I've seen to 'hack' a feature into one of Apple's drivers
> has been one that modifies the resource fork of the driver file. The
> person who made this mod of course didn't have access to the source
> code.

Maybe they can be applied that way but no sane engineer would ever develop
a patch without source if possible at all.

  Ralf
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